Connecticut western news., 1887-08-17
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

Mir. Gladstone will not attend Parliament during the remainder of the session unless his presence is absolutely necessary.
 The parting scene between Emperors William and Francis Joseph was very touch ing.
 Mime. Elluini, former queen of operets, Is the victim of mysterious highway robbery in France. While travelling in coach with two attendants valise containing valuables, said to be worth $l0OOOO, was stolen. Mme Elluini had left the coach temporarily in order to relieve the horses while going up hill, and during her absence the valise disappeared.
 -Boulanger has written & letter to his seconds, in which he says public opinion will judge between himself and his adyer- sary.
 Alfred Krupp bequeathed $25O, GOO for the benefit of employees. His son Friedrich has added S135, 900 to the amount for the people of Essen. The Town Council of Essen has voted SIS, 900 for statue of Krupp.
 The London Standdrd invites the Union ists to frankly inform the Government as to their views with respect to future legislation.
 An American dealer has recently expend- ed 2,OOO, coo francs for modern French pictures. The proceeds from the July sales of French pictures for America amounted to 5000, 400 francs.
 Cases of cholera are reported in Palermo, Messina, and Resina.
 M. Katkoffs funeral was very imposing ceremony. The coffin was borne on the mourners' shoulders for twenty miles,
 Tt is officially announed that Prince Fer dinand, the Prince elect of Bulgaria, has been permitted to retire from the Austrian army.
 Prof Tyndall has written another article attacking MT. Gladstone. He says that all the facts tend to verify the fact that Gladstone is merely resonant mask through which John Morley blows over the land his fanatical trea- son.
 The Belgian Chamber of Representatives has ratified a convention granting an annual subsidy of $50, 900 to the Red Star Line.
 The West Clare Railroad in Ireland has been boycotted, owing to the hatred of Traffic Manager Sullivan. Placards have been posted warning the people not to patronize the road until Sullivan is dismissed. Persons who travel by this line, the placards say, will be in danger of being shot.
 The French balloon containing Alfred God ard, the aeronaut, and two lady artists which was supposed to have been lost, descended safely at Villeneuve.
 Parties of Russians are traversing the country around Badakshan. They have not been molested, and are acquiring knowledge of the roads. They are making strong en- deavors to gain the good will of the inhab- tants. Three thousand Russians have arrived in the Kurgantapa district.
 The German Crown Prince has started for Scotland. The Crown Princess remains at Cowes.
 The English Government has requestee of M. Flourens, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that France name a date for the evacuation by France of the New Hebl ides, and that M Flourens in reply declined to do so until France shall be informed of the nature of En- glands policy in regard to Egypt and as to the naturalization of the Suez Canal.
 The Receiver of Registers at Aderno, Sicily, and his family have fallen victims to their devotion 10 cholera patients. Of the whole family only little child survives.
 The Paris Soir reports that Baron Mohrenheim, the Russian Ambassador to France, has informed NJ. Flourens that Gen. Boulanger wrote letter asking visit from Mohrenhcim and expressing pleasure at hay ing Mohrenheim as neighbor.